Post Description

Studio Album, released in 2006, Norway.

The music has clear roots to the experimental and progressive rock from the period of 68-75, and has a sound that reflects this. The band takes you into the sombre, powerful prog-landscape, with melancholic moods and psychedelic atmospheres. Often taking unexpected turns, adding surrealistic and peculiar touches. Drenched in heavy hammond organs, gloomy mellotrons and jazzy el-piano; combined with classical instruments like cello, flute and saxophone.

It was the year 2002, when a new band, called GARGAMEL moved on the stage of the progressive rock theater. 4 years later, the smart norwegian guys produced their first album, they gave it the name WATCH FOR THE UMBLES. It was an album full of ideas, full of great instrumental work (especially on the cello and the flutes), few chant and very long tracks.

You could clearly hear GARGAMEL's influences here: KING CRIMSON, ANGLAGARD and WOBBLER (allright, I don't really know if the last band was one of their influences but sometimes they sound very similar to that band, especially in the first song of the album, "Tics"). Sometimes I even heard some PINK FLOYD influences (especially in the last song "Agitated Mind").



Songs / Tracks Listing

1. Tics (8:47)
2. Strayed Again (12:54)
3. Below The Water (6:44)
4. Into The Cold (11:54)
5. Agitated Mind (17:42)

Total Time: 58:01 

Line-up / Musicians

- Jon Edmund Hansen / guitar
- Bjorn Viggo Andersen / Hammond organ, Fender Rhodes, clavinet, synthesizer
- Geir Tornes / bass
- Morten Tornes / drums, vocals
- Tom Uglebakken / guitar, vocals, flute

With:
- Leif Erlend Hjlmen / cello